Commit 7e443f696068cd8c84a759e532c2845348e5a6ad

Russell Belfer 2012-01-09T15:46:06

Restore portability to git_path_prettify. It turns out that passing NULL for the second parameter of realpath(3) is not as portable as one might like. Notably, Mac OS 10.5 and earlier does not support it. So this moves us back to a large buffer to get the realpath info.

diff --git a/src/path.c b/src/path.c
index 8c1bd41..f9663b7 100644
--- a/src/path.c
+++ b/src/path.c
@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ int git_path_root(const char *path)
 
 int git_path_prettify(git_buf *path_out, const char *path, const char *base)
 {
-	char *result = NULL;
-	int   error = GIT_SUCCESS;
+	int  error = GIT_SUCCESS;
+	char buf[GIT_PATH_MAX];
 
 	git_buf_clear(path_out);
 
@@ -193,16 +193,10 @@ int git_path_prettify(git_buf *path_out, const char *path, const char *base)
 		path = path_out->ptr;
 	}
 
-	/* allow realpath to allocate the buffer */
-	if (path != NULL)
-		result = p_realpath(path, NULL);
-
-	if (result) {
-		error = git_buf_sets(path_out, result);
-		git__free(result);
-	} else {
+	if (path == NULL || p_realpath(path, buf) == NULL)
 		error = GIT_EOSERR;
-	}
+	else
+		error = git_buf_sets(path_out, buf);
 
 	return error;
 }